Philippine Earthquake Relief Fund
Concerts for the Aeta Indigenous Communities
Devastated by the Earthquake of April 2019
featuring a global lineup of bands
Kokoy Severino legaspi12d1@gmail.com
832-814-4053 (U.S.) 09204120628 (Philippines)
FROM:
Kokoy Severino, Event Coordinator
TO: The Presidents
RE: Proposal to perform as a top billing in a benefit
concert at a local live music venue featuring socially conscious world music
bands, to raise badly needed funds for and awareness of the plight of indigenous
Aeta communities in Pampanga, Philippines whose homes have been devastated by
the recent earthquake. Proceeds from the concert go to the Citizens’ Disaster
Response Center’s Alay Bayan-Luson, Inc., a grassroots organization serving
communities in need in central Luzon, Philippines including the Aeta people.
For more information, http://www.cdrc-phil.com/abi/ http://www.cdrc-phil.com/
TARGET
DATES OF EVENTS:
Sunday
June 9, 2019 in Austin, Texas
Saturday
July 6, 2019 in Makati, Philippines
Sunday September 1, 2019 in Houston, Texas
PROPOSED
VENUES:
Austin:
Sahara Lounge, Radio Coffee and Beer, Spider House Ballroom
Houston:
Warehouse Live, Avant Garden, Super Happy Funland
Makati: saGuijo
OTHER ARTISTS TO BE INVITED: Via Rosa, Atash, Free
Radicals, Karina Nistal, Lois Albez, kayumanggi Pinoy rock band, Paloma
Jaceldo, other socially conscious world music bands
GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS TO BE INVITED AS SPONSORS:
International Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines
SUGGESTED COVER CHARGE AT THE DOOR: $2.00, but no one
will be turned away. All sales from bar and kitchen go to the venue, all sales
of band merchandise go to artists at their discretion. Our goal is for 500 or
more people to donate an average of $2.00 each.
PUBLICITY: The event
will be publicized globally through social media online, and locally through
various formats including print and radio. The event not only aims to support the
Citizens’ Disaster Response Center’s Alay Bayan-Luson, Inc.’s immediate cause to provide relief for
Aeta earthquake victims through fund-raising, but also by drawing attention to
the organization’s mission as well as to the general plight of indigenous
nations who are among the most persecuted communities in the Philippines.
The Coordinator, Kokoy
Severino, will be traveling to the Philippines in July and November and can
deliver the funds directly to the CDRC.
